Welsh-Canadian author and poet

Jo Walton

Jo Walton is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She is best known for the fantasy novel Among Others, which won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012, and Tooth and Claw, a Victorian-era novel with dragons which won the World Fantasy Award in 2004. Other works by Walton include the Small Change series, in which she blends alternate history with the cozy mystery genre, comprising Farthing, Ha'penny and Half a Crown. Her fantasy novel Lifelode won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award, and her alternate history My Real Children received the 2015 Tiptree Award.

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1964

December 1

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1964 Born

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800 A council is convened in the Vatican, at which Charlemagne is to judge the accusations against Pope Leo III.
1420 Henry V of England enters Paris alongside his father-in-law King Charles VI of France.
1577 Courtiers Christopher Hatton and Thomas Heneage are knighted by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1640 End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 59 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.

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The world in 1964

When Jo arrived

april 1 The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.
april 11 Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected president by the National Congress.
april 13 At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American man to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
april 17 Jerrie Mock completes the first around-the-world airplane flight by a woman. Her solo flight in the Spirit of Columbus, which took 29+1⁄2 days, took off and landed at the Port Columbus International Airport in Ohio.

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Alain Bashung 1947– French singer-songwriter and actor (died 2009) Alicia Markova 1910–2004 English ballerina and choreographer (died 2004) Andrew Adamson 1966– New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter Anna Komnene 1083– Byzantine physician and scholar (died 1153) DeSean Jackson 1986– American football player Keith Michell 1926–2015 Australian actor (died 2015) Louis VI 1081–1137 king of France (born 1081) Richard Carrier 1969– American author and blogger Stansfield Turner 1923– American admiral and academic, 12th Director of Central Intelligence (died 2018)

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Abhisit Vejjajiva 1964– English-Thai economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Thailand Andrew Bartlett 1964– Australian social worker and politician Andy Serkis 1964– English actor and director Đặng Thân 1964– Vietnamese writer and poet Arlie Petters 1964– Belizean-American mathematical physicist and academic Azmin Ali 1964– Malaysian mathematician and politician Brian Adams 1964–2007 American wrestler (died 2007) Bridget Fonda 1964– American actress Calista Flockhart 1964– American actress

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